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Eric Holder’s Civil Rights Blues-Zimmerman and the Neighborhood Watch Program

Where is the fine line between political opportunism throwing accelerant on to tragic individual incidents and genuine civil political issues to be drawn? Probably the broadcast media should be given over to Internet citizen time-slice podcasting so terrorists, politicians and demigogues can no more exploit the p.r. power of mass media. Did the Attorney General join in on the side of the racial rapid response political opportunism force post hoc? Doesn’t that violate the real human rights of the acquitted individual?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/17/doj-seeking-tips-in-zimmerman-probe/

The Attorney General Eric Holder has said his department will investigate possible civil rights violation by the neighborhood watch guy George Zimmerman though he was acquitted by a jury of guilt in the death of Trayvon Martin.  The Attorney General seems to feel the particular case of Zimmerman v Martin is a class representation of deeper social issues of black youth being shot by law enforcement people or neighborhood watch volunteers. What are the actual statistics on black youth being shot by neighborhood watch volunteers?


There is a five to one ratio of black felony suspects being killed by policemen to policemen being killed by black felony suspects. That number seems about right considering that policemen are trying to make an arrest and that’s dangerous sometimes. Neighborhood watch statistical relations to crime suspects are something else, and probably there isn’t much in the way of an F.B.I. crime survey on that.

So the deeper underlying question the attorney general may pursue is; does a neighborhood watch have any right to observe a neighborhood as a crime defense prophylaxis. A secondary question is does a neighbor watch volunteer have any right of self-defense if an individual being observed closes with the volunteer and begins beating the tar out of him or her? Uniform rules of engagement for a neighborhood watch could be enumerated by Mr. Holder consistent with the constitution of the United States

Police that Zimmerman called that night advised that he not follow the individual through the neighborhood. Police experience informs them that potential criminals are dangerous people to follow. A normal individual would probably not seek to attack someone following them, yet a wired up youth might, as well as an antagonized gang associate yet perhaps not a hard core criminal who might find it advantageous to avoid a decisive engagement that wasn’t profitable. If Zimmerman had followed hundreds of individuals through the neighborhood before without a violent conflict he probably wouldn’t have a belief that doing so the fateful night would lead to a conflict then. Being a neighborhood watch person does have risks however, probably higher than that of an individual not participating in a neighborhood watch program.

It would be helpful if a personal digital audio-cam witness were sold for ten dollars that would upload whatever one experienced during the day or night to a ‘flight recorder black box’ online in case needed. If one had a record of every cold-blooded evil thing people ever had to say to strangers because they knew no one would ever have a record or witness it might make social behavior better. Policemen departments are beginning to have such for their field personnel. It will take a while for a reduced and specialized smart phone like device to be produced and uplink to lifewitness.com.

There are tens of thousands of neighborhood watch signs posted around the nation. Those strolling through the neighborhoods might feel a little uncomfortable that, they are being eyeballed and ought to be on good behavior. If the role of neighborhood watch volunteer is common, it is also probably an effective way to fill in some of the gaps through which burglars and other criminals plunder neighborhoods without sufficient coverage by undermanned and costly police departments around the nation. The idea that citizens should help themselves and their neighbors before relying on a central government to defend them is a principal that was created by the founders who revolted against the British authority. For the better part of a century there was very little government existing in American internal affairs in comparison to the present.

The attorney general with the ear of the President probably should know that the basic problem in urban crime today is youth gangs and gang busting to end their existence is probably a better tactic to reduce violence. The gangsta ethos and the shoeless droopy pants chic while a social expression is a sign of a less than intellectually optimized social environment. Bill Cosby had something to say about the youth social milieu, and the Presidential race-to-the-top (not sitting on George Zimmerman smashing his head in to the concrete) education program sought to upgrade the educational status of black youth I suppose, yet the problem of high national unemployment while enriching a global Plutonomy are things the President could repair if he had ideas to do so.

There is a race against global ecosphere decay that will overcome a society distracted by a dialectical racism administered by a dull central government incapable of change or reform defaulting to reliance on ‘evolution’ as an orientalized joss in favor of their desired, myopic political economy direction.

Attorney General Holder addressing 14,000 members of the black sorority (segregated sororities?) Delta Sigma Theta said its a good time for the nation to look at emotional charged issues (of the neighborhhood watch program?). The administration seems determined to make George Zimmerman the poster man for white Hispanic profiling of black youth by police departments around the nation. What occurred to me is that there seems to be a serialized profiling made by certain well-known black leaders of incidents such as Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse Team etc that are used for racial media posturing that turn out to be ill founded. The O.J.; trial also might fit in to that set, or a borderline case at least. If O.J. had been white or Hispanic its unlikely anyone would have been racial motivated to make a class symbol of his defense. The Rodney King beating seems to have been a genuine case and the social reaction indicative of the cultural dysfunction of the community. When Bill Cosby’s son was shot on the Los Angeles freeway by a Russian immigrant criminal the race rapid deployment team was comparatively subdued. No riots developed, why was that? Did an immigrant have no class symbol political utility for the r.r.d.t.?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/03/al-sharpton-s-long-bill-of-goods-from-tawana-brawley-to-primetime.html

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/the_aftermath_of_the_duke_lacr.php

There is a rapid deployment political force waiting to exploit any possible circumstance where injustice might be claimed to have victimized blacks one again. For the attorney general who leads the justice department to be on that bandwagon seems especially silly. It is challenging to equate George Zimmerman’s neighborhood watch self-defense incident with the Los Angeles police department and Rodney King. One is aware of the historical origin of the difficulties of black adaptation to the post-segregated social era yet Americans actually would prefer that black Americans get over it and improve their lot in life becoming good conservators of the ecosphere and of the civil rights of all Americans simply because they are citizens of the United States.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/03/al-sharpton-s-long-bill-of-goods-from-tawana-brawley-to-primetime.html

The attorney generals main focus should be eliminating gangsters and encouraging reading of good books instead of eliminating neighborhood watch programs. 

Since the Attorney General gave his message at Delta Sigma Theta about George Zimmerman’s personal tragedy as a class symbol, a somewhat pimpish approach to law instead of through legislation. George Zimmerman’s human rights are violated by all the media and government use of his life circumstance for symbolic political purposes.

Consider the case in the abstract with the antagonists as literal values and race and gender values different. Equal protection of the laws is the goal to go for rather than race or gender rights.

We will make Trayvon Martin a 17-year old white girl who is perennially tardy neo-dropout and recreational drug user  wandering through a neighborhood perhaps venturing into yards around houses in the dark of night concerned more about looking good than good grades. George Zimmerman is a chubby 28-year old black Hispanic serving as a neighborhood watch. He sees a tall, six foot two figure in a hoody concealing her identity and calls the police who advise him not to follow her further. Yet good George having experience spanning hundreds of no-problem missions watching the neighborhood goes into the breach once more knowing that it isn’t illegal to follow an individual or gang through his neighborhood.

Unfortunately for George the girl he is watching senses his presence and isn’t happy with it. She has an attitude and a racial chip on her shoulder. She also hates chauvinist pigs keep her down but  knows her kung foo is good. She ditches George in a yard. Curious George gets out of his truck and wonders what happened to the observed. Trayvon flanks George like an infantryman making an end around an approaches the old pig from behind. With a shocking quickly combination of punches she has taken George down. Riding the bull she is slamming his head into the sidewalk. With unchallengeble self-assertion of her civil rights mashing the pig she knew she is on top and readying to reduce opposition force numbers by one. George the neighborhood watch guy manages to pull out a gun in the struggle and shoots Trayvon.

The rapid response racial team discovers the tragic incident, the President and Attorney General join in entering the dragon war of symbolism attacking neighborhood watchmen for profiling young urban white women as criminals. A jury acquits George saying he acted in self defense yet the Attorney General said he will give due diligence to studying the curious case of George to determine if he violated the civil rights of George by defending himself.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/16/us-usa-florida-shooting-lawsuit-idUSBRE96F1EL20130716?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

One hopes the administration will evolve to a better use of their time to be leaders than the Zimmerman-Martin phenomenality before their term is up. Jesus will resurrect the dead, but a better social environment will need to be supported by full employment, secure borders and a recovering ecosphere.